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Running on natural gas

(
Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times
/
March 30, 2009
)

Dick Messer of Riverside owns a $24,000 Honda Civic GX that runs on compressed natural gas. I pay $1.35 a gallon to fill it up, and the price is capped at $1.99 a gallon, says Messer, who commutes to the mid-Wilshire area of L.A.